Dave Burke posted about cleaning out his closet and finding boxes of floppies. I too am (or was) a huge Borland fan. In fact I started using Paradox 1.1 when ANSA first produced it before Borland acquired it. I'm worse than him though, rather than just keeping the floppies, I have a “special” box with my favorite software of all time - complete with manuals and other off-the-shelf books I bought to learn from.
Going from memory (I'm at work now) I can't seem to part with...
- Paradox (multiple versions)
- Quattro Pro
- Turbo Pascal 6
- Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5
- Borland Object Pascal
- WordPerfect 5.1
- XTree Gold
- MS Dos 5 (what an upgrade!!)
I finally “gave up the ghost” and switched to VB 3, VC++ 1.5 and Microsoft Office when it became obvious that job markets and career-wise I had better switch my skill sets.
I still remember the long commuter bus rides from NH down to Boston every day where I read the Turbo Pascal manuals cover-to-cover several times and poured over program listings I had printed out from samples found on CompuServe. I was a Cobol and RPG procedural coder by day and learning object-oriented development at night in the late '80s.